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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB ‘investigator’ involved in Crimean political persecution foiled by CCTV footage

37-year-old Crimean Tatar Edem Murtazaev was taken away by the FSB in Russian-occupied Crimea after a ‘search’ of his home in Sudak in the evening of 6 March

• The right to life   • Freedom of conscience and religion

UN Committee orders Russia to refrain from killing second Crimean Tatar political prisoner in one month

Failure to comply will almost certainly result in the death of civic journalist Amet Suleimanov less than a month after Russia tortured Crimean Tatar political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov to death

• War crimes

Kharkiv ‘refugee’ held prisoner in psychiatric hospital for refusing Russian citizenship

A Ukrainian woman from Kharkiv has been returned to Ukraine after being effectively held prisoner in Russia for ten months in two psychiatric hospitals because she refused to accept Russian citizenship

• Publicistics

Learn to look. Arkady Davarov — with the parable of the blind

We do not know how to look — perhaps this is the root of many troubles! Usually, we look in such a way as to see what we need or want.

• Freedom of expression   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean artist tortured into ‘apologising’ to Putin and Russian invaders of Ukraine

Bohdan Ziza [Azizov] has confirmed that the supposed ‘confession’ that he made in May 2022 in occupied Crimea was extracted through torture

• War crimes

Russian military pilot who knowingly bombed Kharkiv civilian targets sentenced to 12 years

Maksym Krysztop, a Russian pilott who admitted in March 2022 that he knew he was bombing civilian targets in Kharkiv oblast, including the Kharkiv TV tower, was found guilty of war crimes

• Events

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and his Viasna colleagues sentenced to heavy prison terms in Belarus

This unjust punishment comes in retaliation for 25 years of their human rights work in Belarus

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

'Court' in Russian-occupied Crimea passes long sentences against three Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses

The Russian occupation ‘Yalta municipal court’ has convicted four Jehovah’s Witnesses of preposterous charges based solely on the Ukrainians’ faith, with three men sentenced to long terms of imprisonment

• Events

Russia sends convicted prisoner mercenaries to fight in Ukraine and imposes up to 15-year sentences for ‘discrediting’ them

A bill being rushed through parliament extends the scope of draconian legislation criminalizing telling the truth about Russia's war against Ukraine to cover hardened criminals recruited as mercenaries from Russian prisons

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia seeks 12-year sentence against Crimean Tatar claiming 'terrorism' in a religious discussion 7 years ago

A Russian prosecutor has demanded that Ametkhan Abdulvapov be sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment although Russia’s FSB have themselves, effectively, demonstrated the absurdity of the charges against the Crimean Tatar

• Events

Belarusian partisans destroy Russian war plane and other courageous acts obstructing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Belarusian partisans have, seemingly, pulled off the biggest act of sabotage of Russia’s war against Ukraine, with a Russian A-50 early warning and control aeroplane either destroyed or very severely damaged

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘When there’s nothing left, it’s scary’ (Moshchun resident Antonina Soloviova)

The house of Antonina, a pensioner from Moshchun, was destroyed by a Russian bomb. The children did not immediately tell her about it, but a week later, “they brought the news with a sedative.”

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